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The elites see a sunk cost for the rabble and still a large labor pool doing a job for below-market-rate. Why change anything? The key to this is simple: housi

The elites see a sunk cost for the rabble and still a large labor pool doing a job for below-market-rate. Why change anything? The key to this is simple: housing values. At least in the 'burbs, education is one of the critical things driving housing value. All you simply have to do is threaten white people's housing values and the money will come POURING in. Also, a huge problem in America is transfer of money from cities (desperately underfunded school systems in cities, whodathunkit?) to rural areas. How about we change this? You know what would be a fun exercise? Some city in like Texas gets tired of the state funding shenanigans and decides to form a new state. Like Houston. Perfect example. Remove the funding from the #4 largest city from the state coffers. Burbs don't want to join? Perfect, set up some tolls and rake in the money. Oh, the burbs DO want to join (most likely case)? Sure why not. It would be interesting because if five cities in the midwest or South got sick of their state politics' shit, all of a sudden there would be ten new senators from urban areas in the senate. Look out, totally new political landscape.

thephyber 4y ago
> It would be interesting because if five cities in the midwest or South got sick of their state politics' shit, all of a sudden there would be ten new senators from urban areas in the senate. What policy mechanism do believe is used to do this? I don’t think this can happen without the city’s independence movement getting support from lots of other red states that dislike their own cities aligning with the city against the red state government. I don’t see those movements as being within the Overton Window right now.
jlund-molfese 4y ago
Cities (or any other part of an existing state) can't secede without their state legislature's consent, though. It's the same reason conservative northern Californians, or Staten Islanders can't have their own state and add more rural senators. Article IV of the US Constitution: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Beaver117 4y ago
I think you're saying better education drives higher housing prices, right? But cities generally have high housing prices, so why is the education not as well funded? Why would the money go to rural areas?

thephyber 4y ago

> It would be interesting because if five cities in the midwest or South got sick of their state politics' shit, all of a sudden there would be ten new senators from urban areas in the senate. What policy mechanism do believe is used to do this? I don’t think this can happen without the city’s independence movement getting support from lots of other red states that dislike their own cities aligning with the city against the red state government. I don’t see those movements as being within the Overton Window right now.

jlund-molfese 4y ago

Cities (or any other part of an existing state) can't secede without their state legislature's consent, though. It's the same reason conservative northern Californians, or Staten Islanders can't have their own state and add more rural senators. Article IV of the US Constitution: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

Beaver117 4y ago

I think you're saying better education drives higher housing prices, right? But cities generally have high housing prices, so why is the education not as well funded? Why would the money go to rural areas?